United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 293 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably United States v. Taylor (1972), United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985)
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 542
Relies on McGautha v. California · United States v. Calderon · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. Sutton · Sullivan v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“better practice ... is for the trial judge to rule promptly on such a motion so that the defendant may decide whether or not to proceed with the introduction of evidence in his defense.” Id. at 294. We recognized that it was error to reserve decision by proceeding to state in Brown that if”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent ... a demand [for an immediate ruling] the situation is treated as if the court had denied the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.